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Dan,
I had the same problem with a newly purchased RCX - turned out to be the
tower. I rang Lego support, they did some trouble-shooting and finally told
me to take it back and get a replacement. I managed to change the whole set,
so I can't say for certain it is the tower, but it was the most likely
candidate.
I had been able to connect now and again to the RCX and get a partial
download of the firmware. The guy I spoke said that the tower was the likely
cause in most of these cases. Any chance you know someone who also has an
RCX that you could test against?
D :-)
In lugnet.robotics, Daniel Hammond writes:
> I believe that i have a dead rcx, or a problem w/ the ir transmitter
> (doubtfull). I have a Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 1.5,
> and have succesfully installed the firmware using the cd given along
> with the set. But when i try to download the test program, it bails
> out with an error stating the the rcx is not responding, or the ir
> transmitter is bad. I went through the whole troubleshooter, with no avail. I
> have tried communicating under both the lego mindstorms
> software, and under the Tcl RCX Bytecode Compiler:
>
> http://www.autobahn.org/~peterp/rcx/
>
> Of which neither has worked, this is the transcript of the attempt by
> using the Tcl RCX Bytecode Compiler:
>
> % source rcx.tcl
> % connect
> % source torbot.tcl
> % beam 5
> ping...No response from RCX
> %
> --end of transcript
>
> If anyone has any help that they can offer it would be gladly
> appreciated. Thank You
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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